This book features 25 well known fly fishers and each has a six page chapter, which follows the exact same template: A full page photo, a three page portrait/interview, another full page photo and a small bio.

The concept of small booklets with patterns has been seen before, and offers a quick overview over a small number of patterns in a small handy and not least inexpensive format. Barry Ord Clarke's first three booklets offer 10-15 patterns, some with detailed step-by-step pictures and some just with a single image or two, a materials list and tying instructions. The pictures are very high quality and the average quality of the booklets is equally high. The price is about 4 UK£ or 6 US$ per book, which is a very low price for a book, but not dirt cheap when you consider that you get about 35 pages in a very small format. Still some very accessible books, which are perfect for beginning fly tyers. More titles are underway with more salmon flies, bass flies, carp flies an many more.

A wonderful book about a crazy project, literally introducing salmon fishing in the Yemen! The book is from 2007, but has been brought into public attention by the recent movie made based on the novel.

A TV series from 2008 featuring John Barrett fishing different very attractive locations with celebrities like model Niki Taylor, musician Huey Lewis and actors Liam Neeson, Henry Winkler and others. Nice fishing, but a typical TV-show, including commercial breaks! But two entertaining DVDs with 3+ hours of video for less than 10 bucks is pretty hard to beat.

To review this book is like kicking in an open door - a door, which was opened a few decades ago. So many people have praised it before me, and its influence has been so phenomenal that anything but a Global Class score would make little sense.

The subtitle contains the words "no-nonsense patterns" and that is exactly what it is. A book just after my hard and a perfect beginner's fly-tying book. 34 non-nonsense fly patterns and a lot of tying techniques nicely explained.

A nice intro to tying bass bugs, but not exactly impressing. It does contain some good tips, but dull B/W print and small page count disappoints me in this book on one of my favtorite fly-tying subjects: tying with deer hair.

A book about fishing destinations, mainly streams, all over the world with nice pictures. I read the short chapter on Denmark with a slight smirk on my face. Not much in-depth information, but a recommendation of one of my flies! A recommendation I'm almost sure must come from GFF, but which - along with other recommended flies - is not a stream fly...
As is the case with so many of these ultra-short guide books, I'd have preferred a book with much more info on fewer places or a plain photo book that didn't pretend to be a guide.

Another escapee from "Lefty's Little Library", where he describes his favorite places to fish for all sorts of different fish. Man oh man - this guy really has been there and done that. Over and over again.

If you have plans to go to New Zealand or just want a confirmation that New Zealand is a worthwhile destination to put on your list of places to fish before you lay down your rods, this is a DVD you want to watch. It's some years old, and not quite up to today's standards, but it has an amazing running time of three hours and a very systematic coverage of both well known and lesser know locations, offering a very thorough coverage and a mouth wetting appetizer for anyone with NZ dreams.

Chapralis is one of the grand old men in fly casting and has taken part in casting competition both as a younger man and lately as a senior. In this book he conveys his knowledge about casting in an entertaining and educating manner, and teaches you to cast through games and practical advice.

Robin Armstrong has been painting most of his life, but also used to be a river keeper. This book catches the life on a chalkstream in beautiful images and nicely written text. Also see our article about the artist here.

A mixed bag of very good looking flies with great illustrations and step-by-step tying instructions. A book right after my heart. No-nonsense fishing flies presented in a clear and appetizing fashion with really excellent pictures.

First a foremost a DVD covering 10 very neat and fairly easy patterns tied for chalkstream use, but also very useful in many other waters. Accompanied by a 30-page booklet with some general tying advice and supplementary instructions on each pattern.

A beautiful little book with 16 selected Michigan patterns, including such well known patterns the Adams, Griffith's Gnat and Rusty's Spinner. Illustrated with excellent illustrations by Joe van Faasen

Nice book about Canadian east coast fly tyers and their flies with patterns, with stories of the flies and the tiers. Not impressing, B/W illustrations throughout and color plates in the end, but a very nice read.

A beautiful book with fairly short texts about fly fishing experiences in general accompanied by lots of really nice pictures by some of the best photographers in the business. Simple and no-nonsense. Available at very low prices both new and used - down to 1 - 5 US$.

Beautiful flies, beautiful pictures. Classic salmon flies at their best.
The intro shows some general guidelines for tying well shaped and proportioned full dressed flies. The main section is a bunch of stunning flies with large and detailed pictures and materials lists and the last part is a excellent and very thorough coverage of hook choices for these large classics.

This book starts with the lines: "If you're even thinking of embarking on the life of a traveller - an angling traveller or not makes not a jot of difference - there are plenty of things to get straight in your head." and tells about the travels and fishing experiences of the author in an entertaining, humorous way, easy to read and illustrated with nice little B/W vignettes.
This is a 10-year old book, which must be bought used and is no longer listed on the publisher's site, but still well worth the used price, which typically starts as low as 5 US$ in spite of the 20 US$ cover price.

This is a fly tying book from 1995 and that's pretty obvious when you run through it. Simple in scope, plain and fairly boring plates of a bunch of flies accompanied by a pattern description with materials listings. Not much new, and not much to be excited about.

The subtitle is "Trout Flies For North Wales", but these flies may come from Wales, but look like they can be used anywhere! Very systematic and thorough with lots of patterns each with a small description, list of materials and photos of the flies.

A guidebook to Alaska's best waters, organized by region. I'd probably still want to hire a guide if I was making the trip, but this book will give the reader some thoughts on where to go and what to expect.

A book solely concentrating on fishing for pike. Written by Dutch artist and avid pike angler Ad Swier. This book will take you around the world in pursuit for the toothy predator. Ad Swier is a pike afficionado and has authored many articles on the subject - including "A one foot fly amidst the lily pads" here on GFF. You can also see an article about Ad's beautiful art.

This is a very nice video, assembling some great sequences of fishing and opinions on fishing and related issues, but there seems to be a couple of steps up to the best on the market concerning both content, format and presentation.

Extremely short (17 minutes plus 8 minutes extra material!), but very entertaining story about a bunch of enthusiasts (red: half crazy anglers) that hunt for roosterfish from the beach of the Baja Mexico. Made in a contemporary, fast paced and action filled manner with only little emphasis on facts and fishing methods but a lot of emphasis on the rush of chasing and catching these magnificent fish.

A fantastic documentary about the salmon fly hatch on the Gunnison River Gorge in Colorado. Some very concerning environmental considerations in the form of interviews with local anglers and guides coupled with some fantastic fishing footage.

A truly different - and truly epic - fly-fishing DVD, which is very different from most fly-fishing DVDs inasmuch as it has a story, a narrative. The story of two Scandinavian anglers fishing in New Zealand and getting lost, only to find a desolated cabin and a diary left behind, written by a third Scandinavian angler. The diary possesses especially one of the anglers who relives the story in the booklet and seeks out the author. Funny, entertaining, beautiful... different.

If you are into fly fishing saltwater and like to tie your own flies, this is a book worth considering. Running through a number of groups and species of widespread prey, Aaron Adams covers warm water predators and prey and shows all species and patterns in hundreds of color photos.

Hanley's pragmatic and productive approach to a specific tying method: using furled pieces of material to create elongated shapes of different kinds. Used to tie all types of flies from mayflies over large damsels to small fish. Richly illustrated in color.

A paperback reprint of Ed's 1992 book. The one-and-only casting class I ever took was taught by Ed. What a treat. The man knows what he is doing. It will be interesting to see if anything has changed in the world of casting since originally published.

A very fine video from the stunning Alaske where avid anglers chase rainbow trout under all kinds of conditions - from excellent to not so good. Beautifully filmed and with some really interesting anglers portrayed.

If you thought NZ was only trout in streams, you'd better think again! This trailblazing DVD shows some fantastic saltwater fishing around the famed islands. Snapper, kahawai, kingfish and many more weird and wonderful species.

A very nice and easy to understand introduction to tying the super simple tenkara flies used for this ever more popular type of fishing. You get 17 patterns and 2.5 hours of video on fly-tying only with very little on the fishing itself.

This is a real classic written by the renown fly tyer and tying book author AK Best. The book was overhauled in 2004 and reprinted in a second edition with color images. It's the bible when it comes to dying fly tying materials, and is extremely thorough and useful - even for those that have no plans of dying, but just want to treat their materials as well as possible.

Another Fifty-places from Santella who seems to be a book factory. I'm not impressed at first glance. Each dream location is covered with a brief text and a few facts, and many even without any images. I wonder how these books can become bestsellers...

It's been a long time since I spent any time in a classroom studying the concepts of refraction - how a wave (in our case a light wave) changes direction as it crosses the boundary layer between two different media.
In "Trout Vision and Refraction" - the third entry in Ozzie Ozefovich's "Underwater World of Trout" series of DVDs - we get a much deeper understanding of the importance of air/water boundary.

An introduction to an undervalued and underestimated fishing destination: fishing in the middle of the city. Starting out about a mile from the center of UK town Sheffield, Dean Andrews & John Tyzack take us fishing for urban trout and grayling in their usual chatting and educating style.

Threee DVD's reviewed as one: A set of delightful introductions to different approaches to different types of stream fishing. Presented by fly fishing actor Dean Andrews and fly fishing instructor John Tyzack in an entertaining and educating style. Very nicely filmed in some beautiful UK locations.

A quest after the catch of a lifetime, a giant specimen of the most spooky fish in the whole wide-blue ocean - the bonefish, ghost of the flats - a fish that will mess with your eyesight, your nerves and your sanity!
Writer and presenter Charles Rangeley-Wilson on an island-hopping odyssey, a journey that'll take you by plane, mailboat, taxi and bicycle, in the colourful company of the extraordinary, ordinary people of the Bahamas - all of whom have something to say about a fish that is carved into the identity of the place, about where we might find our prize. And the spectral, nomadic giant-bonefish will take our search down to the wire. bonefishing-cover.jpg

Small Fry is the physical incarnation of an online experiment performed by author ron P. swegman and this site in cooperation. A series of chapters or short stories, written and illustrated by swegman and published here during 2008. The complete text can be read online here, but if you want it on paper, this is it!

Four full films, ten short films and a collection of the best clips entitled "fish porn". All collected by RA Beattie (I wonder what RA is short for?).
Beattie has been scooting around the globe and in this DVD he has compiled more than three hours of fishing video spanning Alaska, NZ, Slovenia and many US locations. A beautiful production and more than worth its 25 bucks price tag,

A mouthwatering - but also somewhat brief - coverage of fifty places from all over the world where you might want to go fishing in your life. Each location is recommended by an expert and described through interviews, stories and facts by Santella. Illustrated with beautiful Valentine Atkinson images, but way too few!

A fantastic DVD packed with sizzling fly fishing action from Patagonia edited like a snowboard or extreme sports video with hefty music, fast cutting and lots of pace. More info and a trailer can be found on the home page of the Angling Exploration Group

I've heard of Ozzie's filming before. I believe he has done some of it in Long Island's Connetquot State Park. Everyone who has mentioned his TU presentations gets that "this is really amazing" look on their face. There are two DVDs: "Feeding Lies" and "Discovery". I can't wait.

A nice book with tying instructions for some great saltwater patterns and the thoughts behind them as well as some general principles of designing and tying saltwater flies. Lots of illustrations in a large format book.

A beautifully illustrated book covering the classic wet flies with a detailed picture and materials list for each and a large tying section with fantastic step-by-step illustrations of several patterns. Text in both Japanese and English.

A fascinating journey with the salmon passionate Sasha Savic visiting some of the world's most fantastic salmon rivers, telling a very personal story about salmon fishing and the preservation of Atlantic salmon.

This first DVD, in a series, is a documentary journey of the history of fly fishing in South Africa, providing lovely insight to the first trout that was introduced to the streams of South Africa and the evolution of fly tying in South Africa.

A combination between a classical documentary and a fishing DVD dealing with a pebble mine project in Bristol Bay in Alaska and its potentally devastating influence on the environment and the fish - sockeye salmon - in particular.

An American angle on the spey rod renaissance or "craze" with a very practical and applicable approach to this style of casting. Dec Hogan breaks down the Spey and underhand casts into clear and simple types and demonstrates each in detail.

Another high paced production from the crazy people behind the Trout Bum Diaries in Patagonia. This time they travel to famous as well as unknown waters in New Zealand, and as usual everything takes place in an unorderly, anarchistic, punked kind of fashion. Not for all tastes, but we love it!

Most people will know James Prosek for his wonderful fish paintings. In this book you get a few paintings, but first and foremost a fabulous story about a fishing adventure and the people the author meets on his trip.

Action and conservation, displaying some thrilling dry fly fishing for steelhead (with dead drifted green drakes!), but also airing the concern that many anglers have for this magnificent fish. Chaotic trip and video, but certainly entertaining.

A fascinating journey in pursuit of the River Wolf - Taimen - the potentially huge Asian trout found in Mongolia and other faraway Asian countries. The Fish Bums (previously Trout Bums) are at it again with hair raising driving, fantastic fishing and videography beyond what we're used to see in fishing videos.

Lo and behold! A fishing DVD that warns about profanity, nudity, drugs and alcohol on the cover! And actually features it all inside along with some really well produced large pike fishing from Alaska and some portraits of people, locals, not-so-locals and strangers, who all have their characteristics and opinions. Heehaw!!

A beautifully filmed journey in Argentina with casting wiz Mel Krieger. Fishing, cameraderie, local people and impressions of a lovely and friendly country.
Filmed in high definition video (HDV) and a boon to the eye.
Review copy provided by Springforelle in Germany

A book on fishing photography by Matt Hayes who according to the cover notes is "the most popular angler in Europe". Well, that might be so, but I never heard of him before... Never the less a very nice book on shooting fish, anglers and fishing scenes with lots of beautiful illustrations.

OK, this is not for all our readers, but the German translation of Danish Thomas Vinge's books on Danish coastal flies will be interesting to a large number of our German speaking readers, and they are the best books you can get on the subject.

Another extremely beautiful video from Robert Thompson. Driftless has nothing to do with the drift of a fly, but with glacial traces - glacial drift - in this case in southwestern Wisconsin. The DVD also features the portrait of a punk band that has a common passion: fly-fishing in the form of the video Reverb. The DVD is chuck full of great footage, close to three hours altogether.

If documentary style is one tendency in fishing video, this is the ultimate example. A deep and profound look at Northern California's fabled and once fabulous steelhead fishing seen through historic pictures, film clips from then and now and the spoken word of a large number of experts.

Fish.Drive.Survive. That very well sums up what it's all about. The Geofish team of four goes on a mildly crazy trip to Mexico in a well worn truck running on vegetable oil and a good dollop of enthusiasm and defiance.

As always from the Trout Bums we get taken on a chaotic and breathtaking fishing journey, this time to Canada to hunt for steelhead. After having seen the DVD it's pretty hard to say whether it's the fish or the anglers, who are nicknamed metalheads...

Klausemeyer's style is impeccable although not very exciting. The book is a catalog of US flies, mainly trout flies for stream use, illustrated with a photo and accompanied by a materials list and a short description of the fly, the guide behind it and a bit about where and how to fish it. Not exactly ground breaking in form or content, but a nice supplement to a fly tying library.

Yeah, it's Italian, and no, I don't read Italian! Not much at least. I get the general drift, but the nice layout and the great pictures is more than enough to make me enjoy this "Complete manual of fly fishing". And in spite of having to spell my way through a few sentences, I already learned a couple of new things.

Henry Gibley is an angler and photographer who has been around - literally! This is most likely just a selection of the places he has fished in his career, and the 100 selected spots are indeed very tempting and appetizing.

More than a hundred classical salmon flies tied without a vice by Swedish Sven-Olov Haard accompanied by a text on the history of the salmon flies, a lot about the House of Hardy and equally much about tying and fishing the flies. A beautiful book.

Atkinson's photos are all over the place: in magazines, in catalogs, in books, online and offline. That means that we have seen a lot of them already, and I have been disappointed before when buying Atkinson books. But this one features a lot of images that I haven't seen before as well as stories in the usual R. Valentine Atkinson style: written by mainly well-known fly anglers.

The number of permit and the accessibility to them seems to be on par with anything you can find anywhere on the globe... and then some! You will see dozens if not hundreds of fish, heads and tails inside the waves, permit going for surface flies and much more in this Australian DVD.

"A different class of fish here!" as Brad Bohen says during his fighting the world record musky (any tippet, so it's large!). And a different class of anglers I say. A nice video portrait of "the musky tribe".

This is a massive and impressing work by Chris Mann whose books we hold in high esteem here on the Global FlyFisher. With more than 1,800 fly patterns listed, each meticulously illustrated in Mann's superior style, This is probably THE title you want as a reference to salmon flies from the whole planet. Running through the indexes - by tyer/originator, fly style or name - is simply breathtaking - not to mention every single page with its many patterns.

Another excellent video in the series The Fish and the Fly, this time about streamer fishing with fishing trips, flies and video from Iceland, Greenland and Denmark and first and foremost some amazing underwater footage of flies and fish chasing and taking them.

If you use ore are intrigued by the Eastern European way of nymphing - Czech nymph fishing - this book will offer you more patterns for that method than you can fish in a lifetime. The best anglers and tyers from the region shares their secrets.

A fantastic and in many ways touching story about a bonefish gillnet fisherman who helps his community turn towards guiding bonefish anglers and protect the fantastic bonefish population on his home island in the Pacific. See more on the home page for the DVD and the project.

Lots of very nice footage of very nice salmon caught in very nice water. Concentrating on dry fly fishing for salmon and on developing your casting technique. Taking place on Bonaventure and the Cascapedias this DVD shows some stunningly clear water and some massive fish striking in the surface.

Five NZ friends have obviously been surfing Google Maps too much, circling small spots in French Polynesia indicating probable bonefish spots, places to go for GT's and generally interesting looking spots. In spite of the improvisational philosophy of this project, in spite of the chances taken and in spite of the somewhat random events that are chained together in this film, it's become an excellent production.

This classical bonefish book from 1992 has now been totally revised to reflect the most recent development in bonefishing and has had a well deserved visual overhaul with more color photos and a very nice layout. The book is very hands on and practical in its approach, and reading selected chapters has already taught me a few things I didn't know as well as given me some valuable tips. The chapter on fly patterns is excellent and well illustrated. A worthy revision of a true classic. Vist Dick Brown's own web site for more info.

Whoa. This is a really thought provoking book, taking us back through the years of fly fishing and showing us how the craft has developed, from fly tying to hook making to rod building. Really interesting reading, well researched as you would expect from Darrel Martin.

Stunningly beautiful footage from a stunningly beautiful country of stunningly beautiful fisherme... ehr, fish! Well, the anglers look pretty good too. Filmed in HD with some amazing clips of mice, casting, fighting and not least strikes in clear water.

There is no need to introduce Charlie Meck to tyers of trout flies - at least those of us in the Northeast. He's been writing and talking about meeting hatches for a long time. These DVD's give us an opportunity to see him and Eric tying flies for their favorite hatches.

Beautifully filmed video about hatches of all kinds in many different places. A little less than an hour of exquisite footage of fly-fishing and nature. Mayfly hatches, grub hatches, krill hatches and even ant hatches!

For people who don't know Iceland it's a fabulous introduction to this fairyland fishing destination. For the rest of us it's a testament to how good the fishing can be on the volcanic island in the Atlantic.

An impressing photo book in the true coffee table sense. A large, thick and beautiful book with pages up and pages down of stunning photos from the American west. For people who love great photos and the classical rivers of the western US.

You have to love this kind of book! Published by a local enthusiast and full of patterns that are used locally. Nothing any large publisher would probably touch, but thanks to Damian Welsh and a self-publishing project the book is available to the whole world as print-on-demand.

I bought this book based on the cover and imagined a nice, large coffee table book with a wealth of gorgeous pictures. A used price of well above 30 UK£ or 50 US$ indicated the same. But my disappointment was big when I saw the book. The images are gorgeous alright, but the book is a small and thin paperback without the least coffee table effect. I could of course have looked at the physical description of the book: 64 pages and a modest size of 22*16 centimeters or 8½ by 6 inches.
Considering the price, that's a VERY expensive book, and not at all what I imagined - even though the images ARE beautiful.

A stunningly beautiful and fascinating book in spite of its extremely simple concept: paint a picture of each of as many trout species and variations as possible. Simple images: a fish flat on its side on white background. But Prosek's fabulous style and the sheer number and variations is enough to spellbind.

As an avid tube fly tyer I find this insight into the world of tube flies very fascinating. The book covers 35 innovative and traditional tyers from all over the world (including yours truly) with text by the tyer himself, pattern descriptions and beautiful fly plates by Craig Wester.
A real must-have for any tube fly fan.

A beautiful, large format book about tube flies with 300 patterns listed with materials and exquisite images. A handful are illustrated with step-by-step instructions. In Sawada's usual gaudy tying style and colors accompanied by Japanese text and his quirky English translations.

Two DVD's that take us around the world with fly fishers and fly fishing. A really nice, easy flowing collection of fishing advetures. Beautifully filmed and with lots of thoughtful and entertaining content. Fishing adventures galore from Confluence Films. Filmed in 16mm and produced in HD.

A genuine coffee table book. Extremely beautiful and with some really entertaining and informative text.
The author, Ralph Kylloe, has his own web page. He works with furniture and interior decoration, which explains the focus on insides of lodges in the book.
Find the book here on the publisher's web site

The magnitude of this book alone was enough to stir my interest when I first saw it at a fly show in The Netherlands. The photo on the front page just wet my appetite further, and letting my fingers run through the pages definitely assured me that I needed to get to know this book better. It's drop dead gorgeous as they say in the UK.

The lack of English material on coastal sea trout fishing changed dramatically when Danish photographer, writer and film maker Niels Vestergaard released his four DVD's on the subject in English. Now you have access to some of the finest material on coastal sea trout fishing with English narration and subtitles.

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